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  • Aromatics Conference 2009 - I'm virtually there

    There's only one thing worse than going to an ICIS Aromatics Conference . And that's NOT going to an ICIS Aromatics Conference. I'm already bored with not going to things. So from next week, I'm going to be out and about at anything I can lay my hands on, starting with the ICIS Training...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-26-2008
  • Black Swans and Benzene

    ICIS aromatics editor Peter Salisbury writes about expecting the unexpected ... Earlier this year I gave a presentation at the ICIS Phenol and Acetone Conference in Budapest. Reception to the paper was frankly mixed, as it tried to link a relatively obscure philosopher/quantative analyst with benzene...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-16-2008
  • Jokes and the financial crash - what goes around, comes around

    The Blog's Japanese joke from Friday has been picked up in the Times today, my fellow blogger Paul emails me from the train to Brussels this morning to let me know. Fair enough - I've referenced a few Times articles myself, as readers will know: I like to think of it more as a "homage"...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-14-2008
  • The Blog celebrates its first birthday - a year of chemicals gossip

    The ICIS Chemicals Confidential blog is today celebrating its first birthday. Born in the maelstrom of the Reed Charity Blogathon on 24 September 2007, it has grown unexpectedly strong and bonny, boasting 257 postings over the course of its first year. The Google Analytics map above shows that it is...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-24-2008
  • Out with the US Coast Guard

    A hardy ICIS editor went out on a US Coast Guard vessel yester day to see what they we re doing about the long line of vessels waiting to get in Houston Port - some 164 ships in line. S ays Heather Doyle of ICIS Houston, " While we were out, I had a very close look at some of the devastation in...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-19-2008
  • ICIS-CBI China reporting team

    Alfred Wong has sent this photo of the smiling ICIS-CBI China reporting team, standing on the steps outside the offices on a warm autumn Shanghai day. In the picture (from left): Front row: Tina Liu (news), Crissy Qi (team leader of Chinese reports), Alfred Wong (editorial director), Judith Wang (news...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-15-2008
  • Football and chemical freebies

    I'm sitting in a football stadium on a mild and sunny Saturday afternoon in this cool damp English summer, watching our team in what is only its third game this season as all the expensive new players fail to score a single goal. Watching football in warm weather is a pleasantly new experience for...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-18-2008
  • Houston fashion goes tropical

    A tropical influence has been evident in ICIS Houston in advance of the scheduled arrival tomorrow of Tropical Storm Edouard. They tell me that dress-down Friday shirts have been tending towards Hawaiian over the long hot Texan summer, and that in last Friday's impromptu office fashion contest, the...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-04-2008
  • New Indian ICIS team in Mangalore

    These cheerful folk are the new ICIS team in Mangalore, India, snapped here by Andy on his trip there at the end of June. The photo is taken inside the compound where the office is located, on a former cashew plantation.
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-11-2008
  • ICIS runner in Edinburgh Marathon

    ICIS London's own senior editor, Ed Cox, is back in the office and collecting up all the funds he raised for his local hospital by completing the Edinburgh Marathon. Here he muses on the experience for which he trained mercilessly and in the process shrank to a shadow of his former self ... Writes...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-17-2008
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